Outside the Beltway

Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

That ball is in your court, Congress.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

The streak continues.

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

The right to fly can’t be denied on mere whim.

However you feel about the Redskins name, the decision to retroactively repeal their trademarks is troubling on many levels.

Once again, Republicans are attacking someone for doing a job the Bill of Rights itself makes necessary and important.

There’s essentially no analogue in the civilian justice system. Here’s why.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.

And Pennsylvania makes it 19.

A pretty clear violation of the First Amendment.

The Court gets the result right, but their reasoning will make things much more difficult for courts, defendants, and victims.

Another victory for marriage equality. This time from the state that gave us the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on interracial marriage.

The fight for marriage equality takes another step forward.

For the time being at least, same-sex marriage is once again banned in Utah.

A limited ruling out of Ohio with wide ranging implications.

A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.

A Federal District Court Judge struck down part of Utah’s law against polygamy brought by the stars of TLC’s “Sister Wives.”

In 1789, George Washington took office after being elected by only a small portion of the population of the U.S. Does that mean he wasn’t “democratically elected?”

Another Federal Court has declared the PPACA’s contraceptive coverage mandate to be unconstitutional.

The Obama administration has issued a strongly worded statement on this morning’s massacre by the Egyptian government.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

A late-night announcement that Gitmo detainees will get hearings raises more questions than it answers.

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting piece out today in the Columbia Law Review.

if reports are to be believed, there is a coup d’etat underway in Egypt.

James Holmes will be shackled like animal during his murder trial for no apparent reason.

The conviction of Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins III for war crimes in 2006 has been overturned.

The 5-4 ruling was much more sweeping than needed to strike down DOMA.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

Why did House Republicans vote overwhelmingly for a bill that their own theories would find to be unconstitutional?

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

A former Navy SEAL charges that Blackwater snipers killed American citizens in New Orleans during Katrina’s aftermath.

DOMA’s trip to SCOTUS was practically baked into the legislation.

Providing a little context for Pope Francis’ background+Erick Erickson needs to learn a little history.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

The Obama White House is not ruling out targeted strikes against Americans inside American territory.

MSNBC’s Krystal Ball isn’t being hypocritical in trusting Obama to decide which Americans to kill even though she wouldn’t have trusted Bush. But she’s being short-sighted.

The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.